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A resurfaced 1996 interview clip from Maryland Public Television's Wall Street Week shows Steve Jobs, then years away from returning to Apple, insisting the company's path forward was innovation rather than cost-cutting. The clip has recirculated online, shared by Patrick McGee, timed to news of Apple naming a new CEO.
Apple has updated Apple Maps to display Lake Ontario as "Lake America" for users in the United States, following a similar change Google made earlier. The renaming stems from an executive order signed by President Trump amid trade tensions with Canada, which altered the lake's designation in the US Geographic Names Information System. Canadian users still see "Lake Ontario," while international versions of Apple Maps display both names.
On John Ternus's first day leading Apple, Bloomberg reports that former CFO Luca Maestri has stepped down from his Corporate Services role, with those duties now absorbed by current CFO Kevan Parekh. Separately, M&A chief Adrian Perica has been dropped from Apple's official leadership page, with his responsibilities possibly being split between the services and finance divisions.
Frustrated with the state of modern software, a developer decided to build their own text editor from scratch instead of relying on Sublime Text or VS Code's Monaco-based engine. Their first prototype rendered everything on an HTML canvas element, handling basic cursor movement, typing, and line highlighting, but lacked features like text selection, undo history, and scrolling. Realizing canvas rendering was inherently inaccessible, they pivoted to using a contenteditable div with plaintext-only mode as a more practical foundation.
A new open-source tool called slotstream enables Apple Silicon Macs to run the 104GB Qwen3.8-Flash-Next language model even when the machine doesn't have enough RAM to hold it, by streaming weights from disk and dynamically sizing memory use, down to an 8.1GB floor. On a 48GB Mac it delivers about 12 tokens per second in warm decode with a roughly 3-second cold start, capping memory use at 32GB so the rest of the system stays usable. It requires macOS 14+, Apple Silicon, and about 110GB of free disk space for the one-time weight download.
Apple has filed a lawsuit against former employee Chang Liu, accusing him of copying confidential circuit schematics and other proprietary files from his company-issued MacBook before leaving to join OpenAI. Apple claims forensic evidence shows Liu used an AI agent to run simulations on the sensitive designs and then attempted to delete traces of his activity.
John Ternus, who officially became Apple's CEO today as Tim Cook shifts to Executive Chair, has created an X account under the handle @johnternus. His bio reads simply 'CEO' and his debut post was just 'hello.' The account's activity is expected to ramp up ahead of Apple's fall product event next Wednesday.
As Tim Cook departs as Apple CEO, he leaves a climate record widely seen as better than peers among major tech companies, having set a goal to cut emissions 75 percent by 2030 from 2015 levels and reaching 60 percent so far. Apple reported 15.3 million metric tons of gross emissions in 2025, even as it faced criticism over sustainability claims and now confronts growing energy demands from generative AI development.
Best Buy's Labor Day sale is offering unlocked iPhone Air models at $150 off, with open-box units discounted up to $359. Meanwhile, Amazon has cut iPhone 17 Pro prices by up to $285, and Apple's refurb store is briefly offering a 16GB/1TB M5 MacBook Air configuration for $240 off before stock likely runs out.
Apple TV has refreshed its catalog with 15 newly added classic films available to stream at no extra cost for subscribers in the US. This follows a similar drop last month that included titles like The Bourne Identity and E.T., many of which have now been removed as the new batch replaces them.
Perplexity has rolled out Hybrid Compute in its Mac app, letting its Computer assistant start tasks in the cloud and shift sensitive steps, like those touching personal files, to a local model running on the Mac itself. An on-device classifier detects personal details such as names and account numbers, replaces them with placeholders before any cloud processing, and restores them once results return. The feature requires Apple silicon, macOS 15 or later, and at least 24GB of unified memory, with 32GB recommended, and uses no cloud credits or API key.
Tim Cook has ended his 15-year run as Apple's chief executive, handing the role to John Ternus, who becomes only the third person to lead the company this century. In his final message to employees, Cook referenced Steve Jobs, echoing the same gesture he made in his first memo to staff when he took over as CEO.